At the beginning of the month, Li Qing saw Ouyang and Mengmeng

They all like to drink soup, and after work, they go to a few nearby supermarkets to take a look and see when the electric cooker has a preferential activity, so that they can buy one.

At about six o'clock in the evening, Li Qing went downstairs, and a middle-aged woman on the third floor was carrying garbage in her hand, opened the door and came out, and saw Li Qing smiling and greeting

"Off work?"

Li Qing smiled and agreed, "Hmm"

Li Qing has lived in the community for several years, and except for two colleagues, people in the community rarely take the initiative to greet Li Qing.

This community is a unit dormitory area, most of them are people in one unit, and there are only a few houses like Li Qing who bought their own houses.

I remember the day after I moved here, a tall middle-aged woman from the neighbor's house on the opposite side stood behind the security net in the security door and looked out, and a pet dog barked inside the door.

"Don't scream!"

Li Qing only felt that the people in the city were really indifferent.

In the staircase, the sound of neighbors greeting each other could not be heard, only the sound of footsteps going up the stairs and the sound of the security door slamming shut.

As the saying goes, "the voice of chickens and dogs hears each other, and the old and the dead do not get along"

There is really no simple countryside, full of human touch.

The countryside that I once wanted to escape from turned out to be so difficult to let go.

I used to want to live in the city, but that's it.

After a long time, Li Qing also got used to city life.

The third-floor neighbor asked

"You're from a provincial city?"

"My hometown is from S County."

"Then we belong to the same region, and my hometown is from L County."

"Oh"

"The corridor is much cleaner now, the location of this community is also good, and the stairs are not steep"

"The house is very good, now there is a property company contracting, and it used to be the street escrow"

"If the property company is contracted, then you have to pay the property fee."

"Well, it's definitely going to be delivered"

"I went to the supermarket."

"Oh oh there you go"

Li Qing walked out of the door of the community, and the resident on the first floor was an eighty-year-old grandmother who lived alone, standing at the door of the community in a daze.

"Auntie, have you eaten dinner?"

"Didn't eat, I'm waiting for my daughter, she said come"

Which are you? “

"I'm upstairs in your house"

"Oh, I'm old, my eyes are gone, hehe"

"Hehe, you're in good health,"

Li Qing continued to walk forward, out of the entrance of the community, and there was a supermarket across the road.

Li Qing picked up the plastic transparent door curtain with his hand, entered the door, and on the left side of the door on the first floor were two cash registers and two counters.

In the middle is a cash register, behind are several piles, against the wall are small hardware kitchen knives, and next to the knives are household appliances.

On the right is the drink, and behind the drink is the daily necessities...

Li Qing went up to the second floor to look around to see the vegetables and pork, and went down to the home appliance counter on the first floor, and looked carefully at several brands of electric cookers.

After comparing the appearance and capacity, move the favorite one to the ground at the open point next to it, lift the lid on the plastic bag on the ground, and take out the ceramic gall inside to see carefully, is the surface smooth? Are there cracks? Then check to see if the power plug is in good condition.

"This is a sample, master, is there still this model in the warehouse?"

A tall and fat middle-aged woman said lazily

"It's still in the warehouse on the second floor, I'll go up and get it to you"

We use a casserole for stewed soup at home, and the casserole stew is the best. “

"The casserole should be stewed over an open fire, and it is not safe to leave people at all"

The salesperson in charge of home appliance promotion estimated that he had already left work, and the tall and fat middle-aged woman reluctantly went up to the second floor, and it took a long time to move a three-dimensional cardboard box down.

Li Qing opened the cardboard box, carefully took out the electric cooker, and put it on the plastic sheet, at this time, a middle-aged female customer came down from the second floor, looked at Li Qing and said

"This electric cooker stews soup is good, but it is too slow, and it takes four or five hours for the water to boil"

"Huh? How long has it been? If you want to drink the soup, you have to wait for a long time."

Li Qing stood up.

Said the tall and chubby middle-aged woman

"Ouch, do you want it? I ran up to the second floor, and I was busy in the warehouse for you, and I was busy for a long time, and my high blood pressure was about to be committed, you don't want it."

Li Qing really didn't want to buy it when he saw the attitude of the fat woman.

At this time, a middle-aged female customer walked in from outside the door and said

"This stew is good, I bought one last year, the eldest sister said slowly, you first put the ribs or old hen in the wok to boil the water, and then put it in the saucepan to stew, two hours."

Li Qing heard this, anyway, there is no stew pot at home, so buy one for use.

"Oh, buy one"

Pick out a relatively good one and put it in the carton, and re-move the few samples that you didn't buy to the counter. The tall, fat woman taped the carton and repeated it a few times to make it easy to carry by hand.

Li Qing carried it to the cashier with one hand and the other to pay the money and took it home.

On the twentieth day of the lunar month, Mengmeng has a holiday today and says that she will go home for dinner at noon.

Li Qing took a break at home for the past two days, and got up early in the morning to go to the vegetable market downstairs to buy pork ribs, crucian carp and some other vegetables.

Li Qing returned home, killed the fish, cut the back obliquely a few times, put it on the fish plate, marinated the fish with salt and soy sauce, soaked the green vegetables in the basin, looked at the sunny day today, and carried the pillow and quilt on the bed to the balcony to expose to the sun.

When I took my phone, it was already nine o'clock, and I moved the electric saucepan out of the cabinet.

Put the ribs in the basin, turn on the faucet to rinse and rinse off the dirty water, knead it with your hands,

Pour into a wok, add cold water, put two ginger slices and two chives in a knot and put them in the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam and pour into the electric saucepan, plug in the power and cover.

Li Qing took a closer look at the instruction manual and pressed the function key to select slow cooking.

Li Qing went to the bathroom and took a plastic basin to put some cold water, then poured some hot water from the water bottle, and reached out to touch it

Warm, soaked the rag, wrung the water, wiped all the doors, windows, tables, chairs, benches, cabinets at home, and mopped the floor again, and walked to the kitchen from time to time to take a look at the electric saucepan, thinking.

Don't boil the soup, open the lid and the soup will come out.

It was almost eleven o'clock when Li Qing did a good job of hygiene, and hurriedly went to the kitchen to look at the hole in the lid of the stew pot, no heat came out, and when the lid was lifted, the pork rib soup in the stew pot did not move at all, and there was only a slight heat floating on the water.

Li Qing wondered why the soup hadn't rolled yet?

It seems that I don't want to drink soup at noon.

With a hint of disappointment, Li Qing picked up the rice cooker and began to wash rice and cook rice, and after twenty minutes, the indicator light of the rice cooker jumped to keep warm.

Li Qing walked into the living room, took his mobile phone to make a cute call, and came after a ring

"The phone you dialed is on a call"

There was a sound of "Teng Teng Teng" going upstairs downstairs, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

Li Qing opened the door and looked down the stairs, a figure with a backpack and a ponytail came up the stairs, Li Qing heard Meng Meng's panting,

"Moe Moe"

Meng Meng went up to the door, pouted, and threw herself into Li Qing's arms with both hands.

"Mom, I miss you so much~ "

"Hahaha, such an exaggeration? Is it true? ”

Li Qing took the backpack from Meng's shoulder,

"So heavy?"

"I came back with a lot of books and homework"

"No wonder, you wash your hands, I'll stir-fry"

Li Qing stir-fried the green vegetables, braised the crucian carp, and brought it to the table.

"Mengmeng, let's eat"

"Okay?"

"The meal has been ready for a long time"

"Mom, your stewed soup?"

"It's not good yet, can't drink"

"We went out on the street in the afternoon, and I wanted to buy a down jacket."

"Okay, Dad hasn't had a holiday yet."

"He's two days late."

After eating and resting for a while, Li Qing and Mengmeng walked out of the community side by side.

"Where can I buy it?"

"I only have to go to the pedestrian street, where there are more clothing stores,"

"Let's take the bus,"

"Okay,"

"Here it is, here comes the car"

Meng Meng got into the car in front of her and threw four one-yuan coins into the coin box, and Li Qing followed suit.

The bus swayed forward on the road, the driver braked suddenly, and the standing passenger pulled forward.

"It's such a bad road"

There was a whining in the car.

Two stops arrived in the blink of an eye, Meng Meng and Li Qing jumped off the bus one after the other, and across the road from the bus stop is the city government square, the westernmost end of the pedestrian street,

On either side of this place are the Digital Plaza.

Li Qing and Meng Meng continued to walk east side by side, looking at clothing stores one by one,

"The second floor is women's clothing, let's go up to the second floor and have a look"

"Let's go!"

"Mom, you try this down jacket,"

Li Qing took off his coat, put on a down jacket, and looked left and right in front of the glass mirror.

"Why do you feel curious and weird? Hahaha"

"This fur collar is not good-looking, and it can't be taken off, no, no, no"

"Mom, this one fits better, and it brings out your white skin"

I looked at every clothing store on the pedestrian street, and none of them were very satisfied, and the two of them were like deflated balls.

"Try to make that fur collar feel more fitting, and it also lines the skin,"

"Just take that one?"

"Let's go, let's buy it"

The two of them turned around and tried on the dress again, "Just this size."

Queued up at the bar and paid.

"Ouch! Caked! ”

Li Qing's face changed, and he rubbed his hands.

"What's wrong?"

"I still have the plug in my electric saucepan! It's been four or five hours, and I don't know where the soup will overflow! “

The two of them carried their clothes and hurried to the east end of the pedestrian street.

"Let's take a taxi,"

"Good"

Standing at the intersection, there are passengers in a taxi on the left and a taxi on the right.

This time is the rush hour after work, and it is the bustling area of this city center, and it is too difficult to get a car!

What to do! Li Qing was so anxious that his head was sweating,

"Take an electric tricycle, right? How much is it? ”

A stout woman in her thirties asked

"Where? North 1st Ring Road, 12 yuan."

"It's so expensive! How many ways is this? ”

Li Qing pulled Mengmeng and walked over, looking east and west at the empty taxi,

"Mengmeng, let's sit on the little three-wheeler! Can't wait any longer. ”

Li Qing pulled Mengmeng and turned back to the little three-wheeler,

"Master, let's go, don't wait,"

Meng Meng got into the car first, Li Qing got into the car with her clothes, and the strong woman plugged in the glass door next to her, sat in the front cab, and turned her hand, "Woo~"

Holding the handlebars with both hands, drive ahead, drilling left and right.

"Or are we still nimble on three wheels? Where do you see this little car getting stuck in traffic? The North First Ring Road is a blocking point, it's too blocked! ”

The strong woman got into the alley, and when she arrived at the gate of Li Qing's community, Li Qing handed the prepared twenty yuan to Mengmeng.

"Master, that's it, that's it, I'll get off first, Mengmeng, you give the money to the master."

Li Qingluo jumped down from the small tricycle, carried his clothes, and walked quickly towards home, when he was almost downstairs, he inhaled through his nose, there was no smell of smoke, and he looked up at the kitchen window upstairs, and there was no smoke and no fire.

"If this soup is burned dry, will the wires burn, then it will be troublesome"

Li Qing kept thinking about various fire scenes in his mind, and entered the corridor, it was so fragrant, which stew was so fragrant!

I went upstairs, opened the security door, and quickly glanced left and right, and everything was normal at home. "It smells so good."

Putting down the clothes in his hand, Li Qing walked to the kitchen electric cooker in confusion, and a trace of heat floated out of the small hole on the lid.

Li Qing opened the lid, the water in the stew pot was almost the same as before, and the soup on top was calm and quiet, that is, the soup in the pot was tumbling up.

Li Qing completely understood what a primer is!

At this time, Meng Meng also entered the door, laughing and shouting "It's so fragrant"

Li Qing said excitedly

"Hahaha, a false alarm, it turns out that this is called an electric cooker."